Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , DECEMBER 31, 1908 NUMBER 8
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Washington, Congressional, Politi
cal and Other Events Briefly Told
Congress.
1 ndicat ions are that persons who
expect President Roosevelt to say
something of a personal nature in his
message to congress replying to the
inquiry as to the basis for that por
tion cl his message dealing with the
secret service will be disappointed.
While the president has not yet writ
ten his reply he has collected a stock
ol information which will serve for its
basis.
Secretary Root will be placed on
the committee on foreign relations
when he is elected to take Senator
Platt's place in senate.
A stubborn fight is predicted by
well posted men in Washington to
occur during the present session of
congress and possibly extending into
the entire session, as a result of the
reported intention of the house com
mittee on interstate and foreign com
merce to recommend to the house a
new form of government for the
isthmian canal zone.
The tariff hearings are ended and
the sttlj committee has began draft
ing a bill.
The insurgent members of the Bouse
of representatives are confident they
will eventually carry the change of
the rules of the house.
Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon
introduced a bill providing for an in
crease in the salary of the president
of the United States from $50,000 to
$100,000. and in the salary of the vice
president from $12,000 to $25,000.
A change in the form of the District
of Columbia government by the sub
stitution of a single head of governor
in place of three commissioners, estab
lishment. of district or municipal de
partments Instead of existing bureaus,
«.>d creation of a new municipal de
partment to be known as that of
Housing and labor, is recommended in
a special message sent by President
Roosevelt to congress.
General.
The labor leaders of the United
Stares sent messages by the wholesale
to the three officials of the American
Federation Who were sentenced to
prison and the information was given
out that, the Bucks case would be
•fought 5) a finish in the highest court.
James Corrigan, who has been in
financial struggle with John D. Rocke
feller lor years, died Saturday, follow
ing an operation for appendicitis.
The weather man was unable to find
snow enough for the United States
Christmas and the day was a green
one in the majority of places.
Harriman and Hill plan a gigantic
Tailroad building campaign in Wyom
ing in their struggle for supremacy in
west.
United States consuls in China re
port that imports are largely in
fluenced by the fluctuations in the
price of silver.
The resignation of President, New
man of the New York Central is taken
to indicate Harriman has secured con
tiol ot that system.
The Chinese desire to have their
diplomatic representatives here raised
to the importance of an embassy.
Friendly relations are resumed be
tween the United States and Vene
zuela.
President Castro knows nothing of
the conditions in his home country.
State Auditor Sea.'le of Nebraska
will give judges increased pay for De
cember under the constitutional
amendment. State banks are reported
in prosperous condition.
Frederick Burnham, former presi
dent of the Mutual Reserve Life In
surance company, is dead from inhal
ing gas in his home in New York.
Sir Horace Plunkett visited Presi
dent-elect Tait and discussed conser
vation of national resources with him.
Justice Wright of the court of ap
peals of the District of Columbia sen
tenced President Gompers of the Fed
eration of Labor to one year, Vice
President John Mitchell to nine
months and Secretary Morrison to
six months in prison for contempt in
the Bucks stove case for violating a
court injunction. They have appealed
to a higher court.
The supreme court of Missouri or
dered the Standard Oil company of
Indiana, the Republic Oil company of
Ohio aud the Waters-Pierce company
of St. Louis out of business in the
state and fined them $50,000 each.
Northwestern millers complained to
the interstate commerce commission
of excessive rates.
The next encampment of the Grand
Army will probably be held in Cin
cinnati or Pittsburg instead of Salt
Lake City on account of railroad
rates.
Vice President Gomez has asked for
an American warship to be sent to
Venezuela and has begun negotiations
for the resumption of relations with
the I’nited States.
Five members of the Smith family
landed in the board of aldermen of
Somerville. Mass., last election day.
President Sehurman in a speech,
at Salt Lake City said Mr. Bryan
and President Roosevelt have done
much to raise the ideals of the pub
lic.
W. H. Newman, president of the
New York Central system has re
signed his place.
"Charles P. Taft openly declares fot
a caucus to determine the party’s
choice of the man to succeed Senator
Foraker. Senator Foraker and Repre
sentative Burton are both understood
to be opposed to a caucus.
President-elect Taft has accepted
an Invitation to make an extended
trip through Texas next summer.
Work on the Panama canal is pro
gressing as calculated according to a
statement of the secretary of the
canal commission.
Cleveland street railroads have gone
hack to the five-cent fare.
Robbers, possiniv the same men whe
robbed banks at Gibbon and Keene.
Nob., the day before, blew the safe
at the Stale Bank of Ceresco and stole
$3.tM).
Judge Taft said that all rumors of
cabinet appointments since acceptance
of place by Mr. Knox are without
foundation. He attributes many of
the reports to friends of men who
want places.
Sensational developments in the
Pittsburg bribery scandal have re
sulted in the departure of a number
of persons suspected of complicity in
the bribery.
Major O. J. Smith, founder of the
American Press association, died Sun
day evening at Dobb’s ferry. New
York.
Unusual demand for mon£y for divi
dends. trust company reserves and
new bond issues was the feature of
the week in financial circles.
The entire milling industry of Ne
braska will oppose the recent order of
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson
prohibiting the transporting and sals
of bleached flour in interstate com
merce.
The fight over the speakership in
the Nebraska legislature has become
so warm that Mr. Bryan may be forced
to take a hand.
Omaha husiress men are enthuias
tic over the results of the city’s first
annual corn show and are ready to
help boost thejiext one.
Washington.
After a recent cabinet meeting and
a subsequent conference with the
president. Attorney General Bona.
parte said that the department of
justice still had under consideration
the question of prosecuting those per
sons whom the president considered
guilty of criminal libel in connection
with publication' regarding the Pan
ama canal purchase.
Speaker Cannon has announced lit3
following as the representatives of
the house on the inaugural committee
of congress: Messrs. Burke, Pennsyl
vania; Young. Michigan, and Gaines,
Tennessee.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent a check for 16,500 to the United
iytates attorney to pay Mrs. Eliza A..
Wausau and the estate of F. W. Blees
for the site for the public building to
be erected at Macon, Mo.
Mile. Adeline Genee, the Danish
dancer touring with "The Soul Kiss ”
company, was received by President
Roosevelt by special appointment.
She has danced before many of the
crowned heads of Europe, and prob
ably will appear privately at the White
House.
President Roosevelt has written .1
letter to Rabbi Wise praising the
work of Riis’ settlement on East Side
of New York.
Brigadier General Edwards, head of
the bureau of insular affairs, in his an
nual report highly commends the work
of the Philippine scouts.
Southe-tji timber producers asked
that the tariff on lumber be not
changed. An agent of the harvester
combine recommended the removal of
all duty on farm machinery except a
20 per cent tariff against countries
that do not permit free entry of Amer
ican machinery.
Senator Gamble took up with the
department of the interior the matter
of expediting the preliminary work for
the opening of the Standing Rock anil
Cheyenne River reservations, and he
feels confident front the information
received that it will be possible to
have the matter in such shape that
even if the lands cannot be opened
then, that the registration may be had
in the fall of 1909 and settlement
taken up in the spring of 1910.
Personal.
W. R. Kelly, cashier for the Union
Pacific at South Omaha, committed
suicide by shooting.
Andrew Carnegie said American
steel manufacturers can make steel
more cheaply than foreigners, and
therefore the duty may be lowered.
Horace Burt, former president of
the Union Pacific, has been appointed
receiver for the Chicago Great West
ern.
Brando's & Sons, Omaha, will erect
a $500,000 theater building.
Council Bluffs grocer received a let
ter signed by night riders ordering
him to leave $400 near a post in the
rear of his store.
Terms of (hirty-one senators will em
pire March 4.
Attorneys for the Standard Oil com
pany filed a bief in appeal of govern
ment in the Landis fine case.
The new government in Venezuela,
with Vice-President Gomez at its
head, has been organized by oppo
nents of President Castro. All hi3
ministers have been removed from the
cabinet.
Speaker Cannon, in an address at
the annual banquet, of the New Jersey
Society of Pennsylvania in Philadel
phia, took an unexpected fling at his
critics and defended his policies and
the manner in which the house was
ruled at the last session.
Baron Takahira In discussing the
recent treaty between the United
States and Japan refers to it as a
transaction between trusted friends.
The French court will probably place
the Castellane children in a high
school.
TROOPS LEAVE CUBA
MOVEMENT TO START THE FIRST
DAY OF THE YEAR.
ALL ARE TO BE GONE IN APRIL
Both Troops and Cubans Rejoice at the
Move and Best of Feeling Pre
vails in All Quarters.
Havana.—New Year's day will wit
ness the beginning of the evacuation
of Cuba by .he army of pacification,
which has been in possession of the
island since the beginning of the pro
visional government in October, 1906.
The first provisional regiment of
marines, numbering about 900, which
will be among the first troops to leave,
is now concentrating from various
posts at Camp Columbia. About half
this regiment will sail from Havana on
January 1, on the cruiser Prairie,
which arrived here Christmas eve,
bound for Newport News. The
Prairie will return about the middle of
the month and embark the remainder.
Headquarters of Companies A, B. C
and D. Twenty-eight infantry, will
embark on the transport Sum ter at
Matanzas on December 31. From there
the transport will proceed to Havana
and embark Companies F, G and H,
stationed at Guienes. The Sumner
also will sail front Havana on January
1 for Newport News, the ultimate sta
tion of these companies, being Fort
Snelling.
From that time on the transports
Sumner and McClellan will be em
ployed in the embarkation at intervals
of the remainder of the army. Battery
G, Third field artillery, for the Wash
ington barracks, and the Fifteenth
cavalry, now stationed at Cienftiegos
and Santa Clara, destined for Forts
Myer and Sheridan, will sail on Feb
ruary 2. The headquarters army.
Eleventh cavalry, now at Columbia
and Pinar Dei Rio; the mountain artil
lery and Fifth infantry, now at Car
denas, Sagua and Calbarien f.or Platts
burg; the Eleventh infantry, now at
Santiago and Holguin, for Fort D. A.
Russell, and the Seventeenth infantry,
now at Camaguey, for Forth McPher
son. will leave Havana about February
27 for Newport News. This leaves
only two companies of engineers and
two batallions of the Seventeenth in
fantry, under Colonel Pitchel, who will
remain at Camp Columbia. These
troops will not embark until April 1.
which will complete the evacuation.
The embarkation will be effected
with as little ceremony as possible
and it is probable that their departure
will he attended with as little force as
marked their landing. The purpose
in deferring the departure of a por
1 tion of the Seventeenth infantry until
April 1 has been the subject of con
siderable speculation, but it Is be
lieved this was agreed upon at a con
ference between Governor Magoon and
President-elect Gomez. It is net
thought to be a measure of precaution,
for which not the slightest necessity
is apparent, but it probably is for the
purpose of keeping the barracks and
quarters in good order until it is pos
sible to turn over to the Cuban author
ities a model camp for occupation by
the new- permanent army under com
mand of General Pio Guerra, the
nucleus of which will be formed, it is
intended, with the present corps of
Cuban artillery and 1,000 members of
‘the rural guard.
Earthquake Shakes Montana.
Butte. Mont.—A Miner dispatch from
Virginia City, Mont., states that at
4:30 Sunday that section was shaken
by the severest, of a series of seismic
disturbances that have been going on
for more than a week. The electric
power and light plant was put out of
commission.
Supreme Court Vacancy.
Another addition has been made to
the list of possibilities for appoint
ment to the vacancy on the supreme
bench in the suggestion of the name
of W. H. Thompson of Grand Island.
Whether Mr. Thompson would have
the place if it were tendered, is a
question not now knowu.
CONGRESSMEN TO CANAL ZONE.
Object Largely to investigate the
System of Government.
Washington — To familiarize them
selves with conditions under the pres
ent form of government of the Panama
canal zone, twelve members of the
house committee on foreign and inter
state commerce will leave Charleston
Monday for Colon.
It is not thought that any measure
having for its object change in the
form of civil government for the zone
will be considered by congress at the
present session, but the committee will
find the Information of value later.
There has been some discussion of
the advisability of attaching the zone
to one of the southern circuits of fed
eral courts in order to overcome criti
cism of the prevailing judiciary system.
Hitchcock to Meet Taft.
August, Ga.—President-elect Taft ob
served Sunday as a day of rest, re
maining in his cottage throughout the
day. He-did not attend church in the
morning, as is his custom. Monday
Mr. Taft will receive a delegation
from Atlanta, who will ask him to set
a definite date for his visit to that
city. Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman
of the republican national committee,
who is to be postmaster general in the
Taft cabinet will arrive here Tuesday
for a conference with the president
elect
THE HORRORS OF WAR.
eNGListH woken hut.
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UNION LABOR LEADERS
GIVEN PRISON TERMS
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison Sentenced to Twelve, Nine
and Six Months Respectively and Severely Scored
in the Bucks Stove Case.
Washington.—Twelve months in jail
for Samuel Gompers. president; nine
months for John Mitchell, one of the
vice-presidents, and six months for ;
Frank Morrison, secretary, all of the j
American Federation of Labor, was
the sentence imposed by Justice I
Wright of the supreme court of the j
Samuel Gompers.
District, of Columbia Wednesday for
contempt of court in violating an or
der previously issued enjoining them
from placing on the “Unfair” or "We
don’t patronize" list the Bucks Stove
& Range Company of St. Louis, Mo.
All three of the defendants were in
court when sentence was pronounced,
and notice of an appeal to the court of
appeals of the District of Columbia
at once was filed, Gompers being re
leased on $5,000 bond; Mitchell on
$4,000 and Morrison on $3,000. In ad
dition to the wife and daughter of
Gompers, there were present a number
of local labor leaders, and others who
were attracted by the notice that a
decision of the famous case would be
announced. Mr. Gompers' family were
visibly affected.
Gompers Weeps When Sentenced.
With tears coursing down his own
cheeks, President Gompers heard the
order of the court which condemned
him to prison for a year. Both Mitch
ell and Morrison seemed stunned by
the sentence, although Mitchell ap~
neared to be the least concerned.
Asked if he had anything to say why
sentence should not be pronounced.
President Gompers declared that he
had not consciously violated any law.
There was much he would like to say,
he said, but he could not do it at that
time. He added, however, that “this is
h struggle of the working people of
our country and it is a struggle of the
working people for the right.
Mitchell and Morrison confined
themselves to an indorsement of what
Gompers had said.
The decision of Justice Wright,
which consumed two hours and 20
minutes in reading, was one of the
most scathing arraignments that ever
:ame from the bench in this city.
American Navy Ranks Second.
Washington.—Our navy stands sec
ond among those of the great world
powers at the present time, according
to the Navy Year Book, prepared by
Pitman Pulsifer, clerk to the senate
navy committee.
Big Fire in Lima, O.
Lima, O. — Fire raged in the busi- j
ness section of Lima for several
hours Wednesday night and threatened
great destruction. A number of stores
and residences were burned, the loss
being about $150,000. *
'Everywhere.” the court said, ‘‘all
over, within the court and out, utter,
rampant, insolent defiance is heralded
and proclaimed; unrefined insult,
coarse affront, vulgar indignity meas
ures the litigant's conception of the
tribunal's due. wherein his cause still
pends.” The law’s command has been,
he said, to ‘‘stand! Hands off, until
justice for this matter can be ascer
tained.” but, he said, there had been
a studied, determined, defiant conflict
“precipitated in the light of open
day, between the decrees of a tribunal
ordained by the government of the.
federal union, and of the tribunals of
another federation grown up in the
land.” One or the other, he declared,
must succumb, “for those who would
unlaw the land are public enemies.”
Says Customers Were Intimidated.
The customers of the stove com
pany. the court said, hart been intimi
dated. browbeaten and coerced out of
their business relations with their cus
tomers “by direct interference with
and boycott of their (the customers')
trade relations with their own custom
ers and the public generally.”
Following an exhaustive discussion
of conspiracies in restraint of trade.
Justice Wright said:
"From the foregoing it ought to
seem apparent to thoughtful men that
the defendants to the bill, each and
all of them, have combined together
for the purpose of:
"1. Bringing about the breach of
John A. Mitchell.
plaintiff's existing contracts with
others.
"2. Depriving plaintiff of property
(the value of the good will of its busi
ness) without due process of law.
“3. Restraining trade among the
several states.
“4. Restraining commerce among the
several states.
The ultimate purpose of the defend
ants, the court said in this connection,
was unlawful, their concerted project
an offense against the law, and, it
added, they were guilty of crime.
Father and Daughter Fatally Hurt.
New York.—In a collision late Fri
day between a trolley car and an auto
mobile George C. Hurlbut, the aged
librarian of the American Geograph
ical society, and his daughter. Miss
llione Hurlbut, occupants of the auto
mobile, were fatally hurt.
Burned to Death in His Home.
Roanoke, Va.—In a fire which de
stroyed his home at Broadford.
Smyth county, A. Gollahorne, one of
the most prominent men of the county,
was cremated.
OIL TRUST OUSTED
THREE COMPANIES ARE DRIVEN
FROM MISSOURI.
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EACH IS FINED $50,£00
Standard of Indiana, Republic and
Waters-Pierce Found Guilty of
Conspiracy by Supreme
Court.
Jefferson City, Mo.—Declaring that
ihe Standard Oil Company of Indiana, '
the Republic Oil Company of Ohio and
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Mis
souri had conspired and combined to
monopolize the oil business in this
state, the supreme court of Missouri
Wednesday issued a decree ousting all
three from the commonwealth, and
fining them $50,000 each.
The decree against the Waters
Pierce Oil Company is tempered by
the proviso that it may continue in
business if, by March 1, 1909, it can
show to the court that it has taken
steps to operate as an independent
concern and has satisfied the judg
ment against it. The other companies
are given until March 1, 1909, to wind
up their affairs in the state.
Decision Is Most Sweeping.
The decision, which was unanimous
on the part of the seven judges, is so
sweeping that Attorney General Had
ley and Gov. Folk hail it as the end of
illegal commercial combinations in
Missouri, and the former asserts that,
in conjunction with the decision of the
supreme court of the United States in
the tobacco trust case, it will affect
similar suits in other states.
Attorney General Hadley, who has
prosecuted the Missouri case since its
inception in March. 1905, will become
governor in less than a month and
then will be charged with the enforce
ment of the decree issued.
Tried to Compromise Suit.
The attorney general followed up
the promulgation by the court with a
statement in which he asserted that
attempts had been made to compro
mise the suit.
“At least three efforts have been
made by attorneys for the oil compa
nies to get me to compromise the
cases," he said. "I invariably told
them that the ultimate decision must
be made by the courts, and refused
their offers. It was intimated to me
that the oil complies were willing to
accept a good large fine and concede
a victory to the state. The proposi
tions were never reduced to details,
but they were entirely legitimate and
such as might be- made in any other
form of litigation.”
Points in the Decision.
In coming to its decision the court
says:
"If such abuses as those complained
of are permitted to continue, untram
meled, it would be only a question
of time until they would sap the
strength and patriotism from the very
foundations of our government, over
turn the republic, destroy our free in
stitutions and substitute, in lieu there
of, some other form of govern
ment.’
The principal indictments against
the companies are:
"That they have created and become
members of a pool, trust, agreement,
confederation, combination, arrange
ment and understanding among them
selves for the following purposes:
“First, to regulate, fix and control
the prices to be paid by retail dealers
and others in the state of Missouri for
the refined products of petroleum sold
and offered for sale in this state.
"Second to control and limit the
trade in refined products of petroleum
in this state.
“Third, to control, limit and prevent
competition in the business of buying
and selling refined products of petro
leum in this state between themselves
and others engaged in like business,
and,
“Fourth, to mislead the public into
the belief that they were separate and
distinct corporations and pursuing an
independent business as legitimate
competitors in the purchase ami sale
of the products of petroleum.”
• Suit Started Four Years Ago.
The state’s ouster suit against the
Standard, Republic and Waters-Pierce
companies was instituted almost four
years ago. The evidence was taken
in St. Louis and in New York, where
H. H. Rogers, principal, was com
pelled to testify before a special com
missioner.
At the same time Rockefeller was
compelled to remain in New Jersey to
avoid Hadley subpoena service.
Stevens’ Slayer Is Convicted.
San Francisco. — In Whan Chang,
the Korean who shot Durham White
Stevens, the American diplomat
and adviser to the Korean emperor, in
this city on March 23 of this year, re
sulting in Mr. Stevens’ death two days
later, was found guilty of murder In
the second degree by a jury in Judge
Carroll Cook's department of the su
perior court. Sentence will be passed
December 26. The minimum penalty
is ten years and the maximum life im
prisonment.^
Cattle Quarantine Modified.
Washington.—Secretary of Agricul
ture Wilson Wednesday modified the
federal quarantine on account of foot
and mouth disease in Michigan and
Maryland, because no infection has
been found in Michigan outside of
Wayne and Oakland counties nor in
Maryland outside of Carroll county. In
Michigan, interstate shipments for im
mediate slaughter only, of cattle,
calves, sheep and swine will hereafter
be permitted from any point in Michi
gan except Macomb, Oakland, Wayne,
Washtenaw and Monroe counties.
CITY FATHERS WERE CHEAP
SHOCKING STATE: OF AFFAIRS IN
PITTSBURG REVEALED.
Accused Ex-Bank Officers and City
Fathers Are Held After Prelim
inary Examination.
Pittsburg, Pa.—With a suddenness
that startled Pittsburg from end to
end, this city Wednesday moved into
first place in the role of corruption
and municipal graft.
Late at night, many hours after
thunderbolts in the shape of sensa
tional testimony were exploded, the
people of Pittsburg were dumbfounded
and unable to realize that the city is
in a position to demand every laurel
for being the champion legislative
scandal center ot America. The trou
bles of San Francisco are tame in
comparison.
Furthermore it Is stated the shock
ing developments here are mere pre
liminaries and subsequent steps
against additional councilmen and
business men will startle not only
Pittsburg, but the whole country.
Apparently, from the testimony of
fered in court, the city’s councils are
absolutely rotten in every sense of the
word. It was intimated strongly that
over three score councilmen are “easy
to reach'' and the “reaching'' necessi
tated only small sums ranging from
$100 to $5.
Out of a mass of testimony it was
gleaned that a majority of the council
body of Pittsburg have been "reached.'’
In the passage of one ordinance alone
it was testified that 60 councilmen had
divided $45,000.
Sensations followed one another in
rapid succession during the hearing of
the seven councilmen and two former
bank officers arrested on charges of
bribery, corrupt solicitation and con
spiracy last Monday night.
W. W. Ramsey and A. A. Vilsack.
former president and cashier of the
German N'ationar bank, were first
placed on trial and were held for court
in the sum of $14,000 ball each.
The seven councilmen. President.
Brand and Members Klein, Soffel.
Wasson, Melaney and Ferguson of
common council and Atkinson of se
lect, were then called for trial. De
tectives told how they trapped them
and they, too. were held in bail. •
The principal witness was Robert
Wilson, a private detective and super
intendent of the Municipal league of
Scranton, Pa., who is employed by the
Voters' league of Pittsburg.
AUTOMOBILE RACE IS FATAL.
One-Man Killed and Three Persons
Hurt at Oakland, Cal.
Oakland. Cal.—As a result of a wild
automobile race on the Foot Hill
boulevard early Friday one man was
instantly killed and another man and
two young women were severely in
jured. The accident occurred a short
distance from San Leandro.
The dead man wras William L. Mot
ery, chauffeur; the injured are A.
Jorgensen. Miss Marie Jorgenson, his
sister, and Mary Jensen.
Mowerv, with his party, was racing
with another machine driven by John
Morgan. The former machine came
to grief on a sharp and dangerous
double turn which Mowery attempted
to make while going at terrific speed.
The automobile broke away from the
control of its driver, skidded to one
side, struck the curb and turned com
pletely over.
JOHNSON DEFEATS BURNS.
Negro Wins Heavyweight Title in
Battle at Sydney.
Sydney, N. S. W.—Jack Johnson
Saturday won the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world from Tommy
Burns. The fight went 14 rounds and
Johnson was declared the winner on
points. The police stopped the bout.
Jack Johnson is the first negro who
ever won the world's heavyweight pu
gilistic championship—in fact, he is
the only negro who ever was permit
ted to battle for the honor. He was
born in Galveston. Tex., in 1878 and
began his ring career in 1901. He Is
6 feet 1% inches in height and
weighed at the ringside close to 190
pounds.
Ryan Quits Directorates.
New York.—Thomas P. Ryan, ad
mittedly one of the greatest powers In
the financial world, announced Wednes
day that, yielding to the advice of his
physicians, he had resigned from the
directorate of 31 corporations.’ The
only enterprises in the management of
which the noted financier retains a
hand are the Morton Trust Company,
the National Bank of Commerce and
the American Tobacco Company.
Deeds of Danish Ghouls.
Copenhagen.—The cathedral of Roe
skilde, the burial place for centuries
past of the Danish kings, was looted
by burglars Tuesday night and large
numbers of costly gold and silver
wreaths, urns and shields were carried
away. The tombs of both King Chris
tian and Queen Louise were robbed of
all the valuable gold and silver me
morials sent by the crowned heads of
Europe and the city of Denmark.
War on Louisville Loan Sharks.
Louisville, Ky.—Police and press of
Louisville are engaged in a campaign
against those firms which make their
living by percentages oh loans. The
vigorous attacks against these com
panies began when an alleged defraud
ing of a working girl in this city was
reported wo one cf the papers. Since
that time one of the morning papers
has not missed an issue without a
first-page story dealing with alleged
nefarious practices on the part of the
loan companies. Several big mer
chants are helping.
